IRISH AFFAIRS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1758, 4 February 1888, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

Speoial police protection has been accorded Mr Balfour. The Prisons Board has ordered that Father Matthew Byan, who is m prison under the Grimes Act, be permitted to wear bis own ol&tbea and underwear. The League receipts from Amarioa, wbioh have been very email since 1885, are still falling oil. The Privy Oounoil, at a meeting on Jan. 2nd, resolved to suppress the League m Lon> don, and thus cripple the central executive. Gullimore, the plan of campaign leader on the Kingston estate, was arrested on Jan. 2, on a change of inoiting. The tenants of this estate, held a meeting on the same day, Mr Condon presiding, and adopted resolutions declaring the Land Commisnioner's reductions of judicial rents inadequate, and that there would continue to be plan of campaign until the evioted tenants were re-inßtated, and that they would appeal for greater reduotions. Lord Olanricardo is engaged m wholesale eviction? out of revenge for the oastigation he got and revenge for the libel sui+. On 3rd January he applied for 150 writs, and has logded£soooto his agent's credit at the bank, to enable him to carry on the war. Bad and bloody work is anticipated if troops are to be sent to aid the landlord. The incarceration of Mr Blunt iv Galway, Jan. 6th, immediately after the sentence, was attended by a fracas between the people and the poliae, m whioh swords and batons were freely used. Mr Shaw Lefevre arrived at Balinaelo on the -7th, and made a speech protesting against Mr Blunts imprisonment. William Law, M.F. for the east division of Cork, was arrested on Jan. 7th on a charge of making a Boditious speech at Watorgrass Hill on Deo. 4th. He was admitted to bail. The demonstrations m honor of Mr Sullivan, ex-Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Mr O'Brien, on their release from prison, and their return to London, wero organised on a groat aoale.